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Dangers of Social Media Hits Conventional Media
Bloggers are always gratified to know when someone reads what we have to say. In this case, it was my earlier blog on the dangers of social media for personal injury clients. A reporter from the Canadian Press called last Friday to speak with me about this topic, however I was in Toronto on a mediation involving the Breast Cancer Testing Class Action. He then followed up with my friend Brenda Hollingsworth, a personal injury lawyer in Ottawa, who has written on this topic. The issue of accident and injury clients being hoisted on their own petard by statements made and photographs posted on Facebook and other sites has been the recent subject of court decisions. The Globe and Mail and the Evening Telegram have taken due note, and anyone involved in a legal claim for bodily injuries, whether suffered in a car accident, through medical negligence, by an accident on premises, or in any other way, should take due note as well.
Insurance companies and their adjusters and lawyers routinely search the web for evidence which can be used to contradict a plaintiff’s statements as to the limitations imposed by their injuries. Your life on the internet is an open book.
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